Showmen's Trade Review (1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Showmen's Trade Review
Date:
1945
Publisher:
[New York, etc.]
Volume:
Showmen's trade review
Leaf #:
000181
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Established in 1933 by Charles 'Chick' Lewis, who previously edited the 'Manager's Round Table' section in Quigley's MOTION PICTURE HERALD. Lewis originally called his new publication SHOWMEN'S ROUND TABLE, but after a lawsuit from Quigley, he changed the title to SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW (STR). Over the next two decades, STR proved to be a formidable competitor to Quigley's HERALD and steadily grew in circulation. It's easy to see why exhibitors wanted to subscribe. STR's editorial voice, reviews of features and shorts, 'Box Office Slant' tips for how to promote movies, and concise and well organized 'Booking Guides' made it a trustworthy and highly useful magazine for exhibitors. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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October 20, 1945 SHO \Y M E X * S TRADE REVIE W 53 appeal from a six months' sentence and a further $20,000 fine. Safe crackers blew the safe of the Sapperton. but failed to get any money. MGM has presented $1000 to the RCAF, Patricia Bay, Victoria, for help in making "Son of Lassie." The money will be used to buy 35-mm. equipment. Jimmy Davie, RKO booker, back from a 10day trip to the British Columbia interior, reports business is off. Prince George, a live town in war, is now supporting only one theatre, and other towns are off in a like fashion. George Clark, Famous Players British Columbia publicity head, is back on the job after an illness, although he is not yet fully recovered. Famous Players will hold a regional meeting of British-Columbia managers at the Vancouver Hotel November 5-6. Larry Bearg, western division manager, will preside. All Vancouver first-run theatres are showing "Victory Caravan." a two-reel Victory Loan drive film made by Paramount for the Canadian Government. The drive will start October 23. An influx of 57,835 American visitors during September in Vancouver has established an alltime record for that month, according to the Vancouver Tourist Association, which expects the trend to continue throughout the winter. Theatres have profited by the stream of out-oftowners. ALBANY Lt. Warren Caulfield has returned to the Palace staff. He participated in the fighting in Sicily, Anzio and the Battle of the Bulge in Germany. All Fabian managers will attend the Victory Loan Luncheon October 22 at the Hotel Ten Eyck, Albany. Clayton Eastman, Paramount branch manager and Alex Sayles, Palace manager, worked together on the campaign for "Duffy's Tavern." Rapid progress is being made on the re-decoration of the Leland. Fred Hass, Fabian home office maintenance head, is visiting upstate theatres laying the groundwork for postwar improvements. George Seed, city manager Cohoes, has inaugurated a bicycle give-away to stimulate children's attendance at Saturday matinees. Kay Alulholland, secretary of Proctor's, Troy, entertained the theatre staff at a party celebrating tne birthdays of George Nugent, projectionist and Lorraine Boshea, usherette. A bond rally to form plans and outline activities for the Victory Loan drive and to accept certificates of merit from the Army to the Albany YVAC and Variety Club, will be held at the Ten Eyck Hotel, October 22, with more than 100 distributors and exhibitors expected to attend. C. J. Latta, exhibitor chairman; Ray Smith, distributor chairman and C. A. Smakwitz, public relation chairman are in charge of the meeting. Congratulations are being extended to Frank Williams, Benton circuit booker, upon the birth of a son, Francis. Jerry Atkin. assistant to Warners' Charlie Smakwitz, week-ended in New York City. Jack Bellman, Buffalo Republic manager, has resigned. His future plans are not announced. Lawrence, son of Jules Lapidus, Warner eastern sales manager, is recuperating from a recent operation. Glenn Humphrey, business agent of the Motion Picture Operators, Utica, died recently at Faxton Hospital, Utica. Burial was at New Forest Cemetery. Sam Rosenblatt has taken over the Family, Watervliet, from Sam Slotnick. Pfc. Wm. Murray, formerly assistant booker with 20th-Fox, is being released from the Army soon and will be back on Film Row. Seen along the Row were Sam Davis, Phoenicia, Mclntyre & Ferguson, Copake, and Tom Alfieri, Strand, Millbrook. Ray Smith, Warner branch manager, is in New York to attend a Victory Loan meeting. John J. Scully, Universal district manager, visited the Albany office. Local F43, Film Exchange Employes Union, will have its annual affair on November 29th at Kapp's, Rensselaer. Sid Kulick, sales manager for Bell Pictures, visited Warners' office in Albany. T/5 Richard Westebbe of the G-2 8th Army Headquarters, Philippines, is now recuperating at Rhoads General Hospital, Utica. Donald Westebbe, seaman 2/c, has been assigned to the Battleship Arkansas, Seattle. Both boys are sons of Max Westebbe, RKO branch manager. Election of 11 crew members featured the Variety Club meeting following a supper at Jack's restaurant. They include Chas. A. Smakwitz, WB ; Richard D. Hayes and Clayton Eastman, Paramount ; Joseph Shure, Fabian ; James P. Faughnan, WB ; Arthur Newman, Republic ; Neil Hellman, Hellman interests ; Eugene Lowe, Monogram ; Harry Lamont and Harry Alexander, 20th-Fox, and Nate Wihig. Dr. Arthur Kalison and George Green will be "kings for a day" at the next meeting, when a television demonstration will be given by General Electric Company. BOSTON Three gunmen robbed the Egyptian, Brighton, Mass., this week. The theatre is only a block from the police station and it was quite a surprise that the men dared to hold up the house, to say nothing of the fact that they got away with $1500. Joan Mansfield, Art Moger's secretary, recently announced her engagement to Lt. George (Continued on Page 54) My business is being funny... and everything's going to be fine for all of us now that I'm making two-reel comedies for Columbia!^ The first (READY FOR BOOKING NOW) Which proves again that THE FUNNIEST SHORTS OF ALL COME FROM COLUMBIA!